Based on the piglet’s injuries, the vet didn’t think a car had hit her, but that the piglet had jumped from a moving truck.

“She was probably in the process of being transferred from one of those breeding sow facilities to a feeder facility,” Andrea Davis, founder of Broken Shovels Farm, a nearby animal sanctuary that cares for neglected and abused farm animals, told The Dodo. “Her injuries were pretty consistent with jumping off of a transport truck.”

The vet named the piglet Freeway in honor of her brave leap onto the asphalt.

After treating Freeway, the vet contacted Davis and asked if she’d take her.

“She said, ‘Do you have room for a little pig?’” Davis said. “I had no idea how little she was going to be when she showed up with this little tiny cat carrier — I had never seen a piglet this young before.”

Not only was Freeway tiny, but she was terrified of everything — yet the moment she met Davis, Freeway glued herself to her.

“Pigs really don’t like being picked up generally,” Davis said. “But for the first three days, she basically needed to be held the whole time. I had to actually sling her and carry her around with me everywhere. She slept with me; she followed me around; she did chores with me.”

But there’s one thing that Freeway likes to do that the others don’t — get a hose shower.

“She’d just gotten really dirty one day, and I decided that I’d spray her off a little bit, and I thought, ‘Oh, she might not like this,’” Davis said. “I had warm water in the hose. I was so shocked at her reaction — she basically started doing a little pig dance, and it was one of the funniest things I’ve ever seen her do. She was thrilled with water spraying on her. She was just like a puppy.”

Freeway is now about 20 pounds, and she no longer likes Davis picking her up. “She’s really independent now,” Davis said.

But Davis doesn’t mind — she knows this is a sign that Freeway finally feels safe.